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The 2020 ADDM Report on U.S. Autism Prevalence: Three Reasons Why The Popular Narrative Was Misleading

By Cynthia Nevison, Ph.D., Guest Contributor

For the last two decades, the CDC’s new Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network has conducted biannual surveillance of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence among American children. This year, despite what was effectively a 10% increase in prevalence compared to the previous report released in 2018, the report drew scarcely a ripple of notice or concern, in a nation consumed with the coronavirus lockdown. 

The Associated Press story on the new report attributed the increase to better diagnosis among black children, stating “Autism has grown slightly more common in the U.S., but a gap in diagnosis of white and black kids has disappeared ... Closure of that gap – thanks to increased screening – is the main reason autism diagnoses are up a little, some experts said.”

Unfortunately, this upbeat narrative is inaccurate and omits some important facts.

 

PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION – A Scientist at Sea

By Kent Heckenlively, Author, Plague of Corruption

Dr. Judy Mikovits didn’t intend to become one of the most controversial scientists of the twenty-first century. But uncovering inconvenient truths which threaten big money comes with consequences.

She has been watched, searched and arrested, but despite spending more than half a million dollars she has yet to get her day in court.  It’s no wonder that Dr. Mikovits often feels adrift, a scientist who cannot get her case heard in the legal system and must instead plead her case in the court of public opinion with her new book, PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION. Get your copy today!

 

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